Consultant, Business Analysis

Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE: CAH) is a global, integrated healthcare services and products company connecting patients, providers, payers, pharmacists and manufacturers for integrated care coordination and better patient management. Backed by nearly 100 years of experience, with more than 50,000 employees in nearly 60 countries, Cardinal Health ranks among the top 20 on the Fortune 500.

What Business Analysis contributes to Cardinal Health

Information Technology oversees the effective development, delivery, and operation of computing and information services. This function anticipates, plans, and delivers Information Technology solutions and strategies that enable operations and drive business value.

Business Analysis serves as a liaison between the organization's businesses and IT systems development teams to align business strategies and capability needs and to ensure IT systems enable their desired value. This job family identifies and analyzes business needs, defines requirements and objectives, and makes recommendations for solutions using new and existing technologies. This job family researches and documents relationships between the components of the application system (i.e., end users, business processes, data, applications, and devices) and translates business requirements into application requirements.

What is expected of you and others at this level

• Gather and document business requirements, user stories and facilitating their discussion, confirmation and implementation.

• Conduct thorough business process analysis to understand and document current business processes, workflows and systems, create and document high-level and detailed requirements for new processes and systems, develop use cases, and manage requirement changes.

• Maintain relationships with the business, understand business priorities and be able to prioritize work across multiple projects and workstreams with the assistance of the Product Owners.

• Proactively identify and effectively use multiple approaches to problem solving, analyze potential solutions, and provide logical recommendations.

• Work with customers and partners to define requirements.

• Accurately lead integration initiatives.

• Write acceptance criteria for the user stories and working with the development and QA automation team to ensure the user stories are decomposed to in a manner to most efficiently facilitate the development effort.

• Attend administrative meetings and perform other administrative functions as needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead elicitation sessions with impacted stakeholders to develop and articulate process flows, requirements and rules, and prepare appropriate documentation.

• Conduct thorough business process analysis to understand and document current business processes, workflows and systems, create and document high-level and detailed requirements for new processes and systems, develop use cases, and manage requirement changes.

• Maintain relationships with the business, understand business priorities and be able to prioritize work across multiple projects and workstreams, identify effort, impact and timeline; works closely with core program team members

• Writes test scenarios, test cases and acceptance criteria for the user stories and work with the development and QA teams to ensure the user stories are decomposed in a manner to most efficiently facilitate the development effort

• Proactively identifies and effectively uses multiple approaches to problem solving, analyze potential solutions, and provides logical recommendations.

• Solid experience in all phases of the software development lifecycle applying best practices and Agile software development methodologies

• Collaborates with subject matter experts to execute user acceptance testing and change management activities; including training businesses on new details and process flows with system

• Partners with functional experts to ensure scope is clearly defined for projects and implementation initiatives.

• Exhibit general understanding of hardware/software platforms including but not limited to operating systems, databases, application servers, web servers and integration technologies.

• Investigates business operations, identifies causes behind the results achieved, and articulates the effects of those results on the business.

• Demonstrates problem solving ability that allows for effective and timely resolution of system issues including but not limited to production outages.

• Demonstrate knowledge of software development techniques, software languages, system integrations, and hardware/software platforms

• Provide deployment support on site and virtually.

Qualifications

• 4-8 years of experience, preferred

• Bachelor's degree in related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products preferred.

• Experience working with internally built custom applications.

• Experience working in Agile methodology, utilizing Jira.

• Experience in working with on shore, off shore, and near shore development team members.

• Self-starter with excellent documentation skills, including the ability to maintain documentation with user stories.

• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills; ability to identify problems, gather facts, analyze potential risks and impacts, and choose or propose a solution.

• Demonstrates strong analytical skills, including thorough understanding of how to solicit and interpret customer business needs, model business functions, and translate them into application and operational requirements and user stories.

• Strong oral and written communication skills, ability to ask probing questions, lead cross-functional meetings and provide clear status reports to both technical and non-technical team members and executives.

• Work independently, prioritizing work and proactively communicating status

Anticipated salary range: $80,900 - $115,500

Bonus eligible: No

Benefits: Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.

• Medical, dental and vision coverage

• Paid time off plan

• Health savings